Bats

Inter-religious literary networks. Credit: Humanities and Social Sciences Communications (2023). DOI: 10.1057/s41599-023-01678-y It could almost be the start of a joke: What do bats, priests and rabbis have in common? The answer: Their social networks can be traced using a new computer science tool called network analysis. Prof.…

Even though it’s been a dozen years since Deathly Hallows – Part 2 drew the original eight-film saga to a close, Daniel Radcliffe will have long since made his peace with the fact that the shadow of Harry Potter will follow him wherever he goes for the rest of his life. For a while, though, questions about the Wizarding World began to fall by the wayside after the actor began establishing himself as one of the most interesting and versatile young talents in the business, one who would make a point of choosing the most…

Posted in: Comics, DC Comics, Preview | Tagged: Batman, Comics, dc, previewsDetective Comics #1073 puts Batman's "myths don't bleed" theory to the test as he faces powerful protectors and an Azmer demon. What could go wrong?Published Sat, 24 Jun 2023 21:27:10 -0500 by Jude Terror | Ah, nothing like pairing an exhausted superhero on his last legs against powerful protectors and a demon to remind everyone you can't keep a good Batman down. Detective Comics #1073, hitting stores on Tuesday, June 27th, brings us Bruce's…

OpenAI, maker of popular AI chatbot ChatGPT, has announced the launch of a program to award ten $100,000 grants to fund experiments in setting up a democratic process for deciding what rules AI systems should follow, within the bounds defined by the law. The company says that it wants to learn from these experiments, and use them as the basis for a more global, and more ambitious process in future. It hopes that these initial experiments could help explore decision relevant questions and build novel democratic tools…

The long, trailing tails of Luna moths appear to have one, single function and few, if any, drawbacks. Credit: Bat illustration from “Voyage dans l’Amérique méridionale” (1846-1847) by Alcide d’Orbigny. Moth illustration from “Illustrations of Exotic Entomology,” (1837) by Dru Drury.Researchers found that Luna moth tails primarily serve to misdirect bat attacks, with no additional mating advantages or increased visibility to bird predators.In a pair of complementary studies, researchers took a close look at Luna moth…

With several domestic startups facing the heat due to the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, CII President Sanjiv Bajaj on Monday said that India could look to create its own enabling financial ecosystem to support budding entrepreneurs. Talking about the startup sector, the CII President in an interview with PTI said it is an unusual sector where the normal banking parameters do not work. "It (startup sector) is a very high growth, it is very innovative, it is loss-making in the initial years. So, the normal banking…

Amid growing concerns about Silicon Valley Bank's financial stability, US billionaire investor Bill Ackman said that the US government should consider a "highly dilutive" bailout for the lender.Founder and CEO of hedge fund Pershing Square Capital Management, Ackman said that the "failure of SVB could destroy an important long-term driver of the economy as VC-backed companies rely on SVB for loans and holding their operating cash".The failure of @SVB_Financial could destroy an important long-term driver of the economy as…

Compared with other mammals, bats are notorious for hosting more viruses that are dangerous to people but not themselves. It’s an oddity that’s drawn renewed attention since COVID-19 broke out in humans—many scientists suspect the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 leaped from bats into people, directly or via an intermediate host. Seeking to create large quantities of bat tissue to help study why the flying animals are so virus-friendly, a research team now reports it has…

Pallas’s long-tongued bats have the fastest metabolism of any mammal, and feed on the nectar from flowers by hovering just outside of them like a hummingbird. Now, using high-speed infrared cameras, researchers at Dartmouth College have discovered that the whiskers on these bats help them expertly extract nectar from the blooms, sometimes as quickly as a half-second. The finding not only reveals a key piece of information about the bats, but also about how flora and fauna can evolve together.Pallas's long-tongued bats…

“Every time we get an animal carcass, it has value to research,” said Katzner. “If I think about it from a scientific perspective, if you leave that carcass out there in the field, you’re wasting data.”That data is important to people like Amanda Hale, a biologist who helped build the repository while at Texas Christian University. She is now a senior research biologist at Western Ecosystems Technology, a consulting company that, along with providing other services, surveys for dead wildlife at renewable energy sites.…